# Greg (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/greg/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 77,849 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 77,706 / 143 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 450, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 7 | 5,516 |
| 1964 | 5 | 7,130 |
| 1965 | 6 | 6,051 |
| 1966 | 6 | 6,052 |
| 1967 | 8 | 5,152 |
| 1968 | 11 | 4,300 |
| 1969 | 9 | 5,177 |
| 1970 | 9 | 5,539 |
| 1971 | 11 | 4,909 |
| 1972 | 5 | 8,718 |
| 1973 | 6 | 7,757 |
| 1976 | 6 | 8,496 |
| 1977 | 5 | 10,137 |
| 1985 | 5 | 11,240 |
| 1986 | 5 | 11,550 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 45 | 2,680 |
| 2012 | 39 | 2,977 |
| 2013 | 49 | 2,500 |
| 2014 | 27 | 3,829 |
| 2015 | 34 | 3,315 |
| 2016 | 38 | 3,083 |
| 2017 | 26 | 4,027 |
| 2018 | 26 | 4,032 |
| 2019 | 28 | 3,835 |
| 2020 | 24 | 4,190 |
| 2021 | 35 | 3,323 |
| 2022 | 22 | 4,608 |
| 2023 | 20 | 4,943 |
| 2024 | 23 | 4,477 |
| 2025 | 21 | 4,761 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 11 | 1,410 |
| 2004 | 24 | 875 |
| 2005 | 20 | 1,047 |
| 2006 | 9 | 1,892 |
| 2007 | 8 | 2,211 |
| 2008 | 6 | 2,775 |
| 2009 | 4 | 3,744 |
| 2010 | 10 | 2,036 |
| 2012 | 4 | 3,987 |
| 2013 | 4 | 3,822 |
| 2014 | 3 | 4,632 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2017 | 4 | 3,996 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4,608 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |

## People named Greg

- Greg Kinnear, American actor
- Greg Louganis, American Olympic springboard and platform diver
- Greg Bear, American writer best known for science fiction (1951–2022)
- Greg Van Avermaet, Belgian cyclist
- Greg LeMond, American racing cyclist
- Greg Rutherford, British long jumper
- Greg Cipes, American actor and voice actor (born 1980)
- Greg Egan, Australian science fiction writer and former computer programmer
- Greg Germann, American actor
- Greg Monroe, American basketball player (born 1990)
- Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer
- Greg Brockman, American entrepreneur, investor, and software developer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.